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NEI/verm PLATFORM Ann ooUPLiNe P. COWELL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE COWELL COMPANY, OF SAME PL AGE.

\ CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

Application filed January 2S, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEWELL P; COWELL, of Gleveland,in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it pertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to car-couplers, and more particularlyto that class known as automatic car-couplers,77 that are adapted to engage with the opposite couplers when the same are brought together without the interposition of any mechanical device or endangering the life or limbs of a brakeman; and it consists in parts and combination of parts, aswill more fully hereinafter be described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure1 represents an isometric view ot' the under portions of two opposite car-platforms carrying my improved couplers, one of the couplers being shown in closed and the pther in open adjustment. Fig. 2 is a view showing the couplers locked together. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view through one draw-bar and coupler,

showing the mechanism for locking the coupler in open and closed adjustment; andFigA is a` similar view, showingthe stop drawn out and disengaged from the pivoted couplinghead. y

In the drawings, AA 4represent `the plat forms, preferably of passenger-coaches.

B B' represent t-he draw-bars, which consist preferably of two metal plates sufficiently removed to permit theintroduction ot the spring and stop5also, the pivoted head or coupler C, which is also adapted to turn upon the pivot I). The pivoted head shown in Fig. 3 is provided with the angular portion c, which is adapted to engage with the same angular portion of the opposing coupler. Itis also provided with another angular face upon its opposite side, as shown at c2, which is adapted to bear against the stop E when the coupler is open, as shown in Fig. 1. The pivoted head has shoulders or' projectionson its side, which slide upon the circular `portion of the plates composing the draw-bars. Thus the pivoted head is adapted to revolve backward until the shoulders strike the non-circular portion of the draw-bar.

head G from turning shown at C' in'Fig. 1

shown. rests against the back po oted head, as shown in its turning A coil-spring,

tact with the rod e.

od of operating the stop E a lever, G, the lever being proved coupler, I will bri eration.

lers of two cars to or should the hooks be in have come to a standstillV and locked in their closed in Fig. 2. couplers lers of two adjacent cars.

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D'Lwith which may be en link,andin thismannerthe retract the stop when drawn `On one side of the stop E is a rod, attached to the plates composing head. This keeps the stop E in place as it moves backward and forward. It also prevents the stop E from being drawn out too far by a projection on the stop E coming in con- 27s,4o3, dated May 29, Issa.

E is a stop adapted to prevent the pivoted forward farther than by the angular portion `c2 coming in contact with the stop, as there When the coupler is closed the stop rtion, d, of the piv- Fig. 3, and prevents forward until the stop is removed. H, or its equivalent, is used to out and released. e, that is the `draw- In the drawings I have illustrated one meth- It consists in connecting the stop, by means of a chain, F, with pivoted in the platform ot' the car and adapted to be operated from the upper side of the platform.

Having described the construction of my im-` etly describe its optheir open position,

they will pass each other, and after the cars they can be turned position, as shown When it is desired to release the the lever G isoperated, and the stop E thereby withdrawn, thus allowing the hook `to turn on its pivot and disengage the coup- VIhis operation canv be done as readily when the cars are on a curve as when ou a straight line of track.

To adapt cars provided with my improved lers to be coupled to cars having the ordinarylink-coupler, I attach to thepivotDa hook,

gaged the ordinary cars may becoupled,

though furnished with differentforms ot' couplers. To prevent the link s from displacement When the pivoted hooks of the coupbe coupled together are in their closed position, as illustrated in- Fig. 3, the curved faces of the hooks willstrike each other as the cars come together,causing the hooksto recede laterally until they have passed by a sufficient distance to allow their faces c to engage each other, as illustrated in Fig. 2;

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or becoming disengaged from the hook D', a spring and suitable locking mechanism may be provided.

What I claim is- 1. The combination, with a draw-bar, of a coupling-head pivoted to the endthereof and provided with an angular face, c, and with the straightfaces dand c2, and the spring-actuated stopv interposed between the draw-bar and coupling-head, and adapted to operate substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the draw-head B and coupling-head C, pivoted in the head of l the draw-head, of the sliding stop E, located in a recess formed between the coupler and 15 draw-head, said stop being constructed with a .orwardlyprojecting arm at its lower end and a rearwardly-projecting arm at its, upper end, and al spring located between a seat on the draw-head and the rearwardly-projecting arm zo of the sliding stop, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed myname to this specification in the'presence of two subscribing witnesses.'

y NE WELL P. COWELL. Witnesses:

J. G. ENGEL, .ALBERT E. LYNCH. 

